Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear Andrew Please find below my submission regarding the proposed Pinnacle slot race. 1. I support the concept generally and enthusiastically. 2. I support the proposed date of March/April. 3. I support the race being held over a middle distance. 4. I support the race being restricted to Australian born horses. 5. I support the bonus for […]
Two days ago we told you our views about race 1 at Terang on Tuesday night. The Stewards report is now out. Here is what we said, what the stipes found, and our comments. Not much of it is good. RACE 1 – REID STOCKFEEDS 3YO PACE (1680 MS) Alex Ashwood has 2 runners in the race, […]
Seriously concerning reports are emerging out of Wagga suggesting that Greg Gangle (pictured), the CEO of the Riverina Paceway, has been stood down from attending the next six race meetings held at the track because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19. The word is that Gangle, a self-described ‘real estate investor and entrepreneur’ who arrived […]
I have written of my admiration for the skills of NSW trot trainer Troy Williams before. On Tuesday at Menangle the master trainer Williams impressed me even more. Manly Mach used to be a cat, much like the footy team that is named after. Aaron Bain couldn’t get it going in Adelaide, Ben Yole wouldn’t […]
I have very bad news for Bonno. No, it is not the definition of his nickname in the Urban Dictionary, although it is not one that I’d want. The bad news is not that Beyonce doesn’t wail either. It is that she never wailed, sang, whispered or said ‘girls, they run the world’. What she […]
This afternoon I was contacted by a harness racing identity who wanted to alert me to the fact that Petes Said So – the heavily backed winner of the last race at Menangle on Tuesday ($4.60 into $3) – had run a near full second than it ever had before, and that the horse been […]
Is this Adelaidease for ‘the TAB haven’t paid us yet so we have no dough to pay you’? Does it mean ‘our computers have crashed and we can’t afford to fix them’? Or is there just a genuine issue affecting the manual payment of prizemoney? Who knows? The only thing certain is that landlords, feed […]
Is it any wonder that no-one bets on the South Australian trots anymore? This is the start of race 4 at Globe Derby on Monday. What a goddamn shemozzle.
This is race 4 at Albury last night. The $1.60 favourite Redbank Tommy leads until the straight, and then gallops for seemingly no reason at all. Second favourite The Lurker, drawn inside of the back row in the yellow and blue horizontal bars with the red sleeves and blue cap, is driven stone cold dead […]
SA’s leading trot driver Danielle Hill left the Globe Derby course without permission after race 6 on Monday. She returned in time to drive in races 8 and 9. Where the hell did she go? And why? The Stewards say that they are going to find out. Let’s hope so. But the SA Stewards say […]
